Keinan
Keinan was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,995 among boys’ names; 199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keinan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keinan?
#12,995 among boys’ names, 2025
Keinan fell from #7,776 in 2015 to #12,995 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 2.9 per million.
13 babies in 2008, the peak
Keinan peaked in 2008, when 13 boys were given it, #6,596 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,995 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,231 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,354 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,471 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,122 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,166 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,383 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,292 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,474 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,776 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #10,216 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,276 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,755 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,596 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,351 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,145 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,426 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,869 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,066 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,583 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,326 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,483 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,876 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,484 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,355 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,580 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,546 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,056 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,772 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,570 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keinan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keinan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keinan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keinan, and how old are they?
An estimated 195 Americans named Keinan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 179 people named Keinan (5 women and girls, 174 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keinan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.